About Hamrick Software

Hamrick Software was founded in 1991 by Ed Hamrick. Our first product was VuePrint, an easy to use JPEG viewer for Windows that for many years was the recommended image viewer for AOL, with more than 100,000 users. In 1998, the company first released VueScan, a program for scanning with flatbed and film scanners with more than 400,000 users all over the world.

Hamrick Software is a father and son team: Ed Hamrick and his son David Hamrick. Marketing and PR is handled by Beverley Nash at Nash Marketing.

About the Authors

Ed Hamrick has always been interested in photography, and when he purchased his first film scanner (an HP PhotoSmart) in 1997 he decided to see if he could produce better quality scans than the software that came with the scanner. The result of this was a program called VueSmart. After upgrading to the Nikon LS-30, Ed modified VueSmart to support multiple scanners and renamed it VueScan. In the following years, Ed added support for many different scanners, and is constantly adding support for new scanners, implementing suggestions from users, and adding new features. As a result, new versions of VueScan are released frequently.

Ed Hamrick graduated with honors from the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) with a degree in Engineering and Applied Science. He worked for three years at NASA/JPL as a programmer, and worked at Boeing as a programmer and manager for ten years. Subsequently, Ed worked for five years at Convex Computer Corporation as a Systems Engineer and Systems Engineering Manager. Ed is married and has four children. He speaks fluent English, Russian and German. You can read more in an interview Ed gave.

Before Hamrick Software, David worked as a contract iOS developer, primarily for Mercury Intermedia. There he was part of a team that developed 3 applications that were ranked #1 overall in the iOS app store and 14 apps that were ranked #1 in their category. David has also worked in the research and development and robotics fields. David is an alumnus of Vanderbilt University where he studied Computer Engineering and Engineering management. David currently lives in Nashville, TN after having lived in England for 10 years.

Dawn Campbell, co-owner of a web and print design company in
Alberta, Canada, uses VueScan, and nothing else to produce some
wonderful unique floral images. Her photo gallery is at the top
of the popular galleries on pBase.com and she specialises in
scanning flowers.

John Chapman, a lecturer in graphics, multimedia and programming at
RMIT University, uses VueScan to prepare the images that illustrate the
books that he writes and publishes. These books include 'Day Walks Victoria',
'Bushwalking in Australia' and 'Day Walks Tasmania'.

Winfried Schwolgin writes for photography journals in Germany,
is an active member in a regional photography club, and is the
author of a book in Germany about
Digitale Dunkelkammertechnik,
(Digital Darkroom Techniques).

"Vuescan is like magic and transformed the program which came with my expensive CanoScan FS4000 slide scanner
all those years ago. I am a professional small business magazine and book publisher
(www.jaguarmagazine.com)
and your Vuescan allows me to scan anything to the same standard as the 'big boys', saving me a small fortune
and giving me the flexibility I need to publish on time. Your service back-up is also impeccable.

With one of Norway's largest aviation photo archives on slide, Kjell
Granlund of Scandinavian Aviation Photography has used to VueScan to
digitize around 15,000 images and is still adding new slides. Some can
be seen at www.scanavphoto.no.
Kjell says: "Without batch-scanning in VueScan this task would have been impossible.
I get the required quality for digital preview and can return to the slide for
a higher quality scan as required."

Stan Brown of Miami University Library:

Students at Miami University use VueScan in their library for all their
needs. In charge of the library, Stan Brown says that VueScan is soon to
be used on their digitising projects. "VueScan does the best job for
us - we are very pleased with its functionality and efficiency"

Just a quick note to let you know how happy we at
Imagerylab.com are with your VueScan software. One
very helpful feature of VueScan is it's ability to
'remember' previous settings for different types of
film media. We don't have to constantly re-setup
VueScan whenever we switch between B/W and
color-reversal film types. VueScan remembers previous
setting based on film type and this saves us in setup
time.

Also, our business is attracting high quality
photographers who recognize the benefits of our
scanning using VueScan software.

Thank you very much for integrating the support for the Nikon
Coolscan 9000 as well as the Coolscan 5000 - the frame alignment
works like a charm!

Finally all the hassle with the Nikon support is over: I've purchased
a serial number and installed the latest version.

Incredible details, no jaggies even in enlargements @ 300%, very
smooth color gradients, fantastic shadow details and much, much more.
The list is long!. Even without multi sample scanning the images
render much more detailed an sharper compared to the Nikon Scan
software.

Your latest VueScan brings back the 'art of scanning' high quality
slides from 35mm to 6x9 cm. It's amazing how fast VueScan works with
the Nikon scanners now - it's like steroids on the machines!

Last but not least: the color rendition is absolutely superb - now we
don't have any problems scanning Fuji Velvia 50 (the old one!).

This is just a note to let you know how pleased I am with my recent purchase
of VueScan. I run a small, home-based business designing DVDs for people,
transferring photos, negatives, movie film, etc., and of course, I do a lot
of slide scanning. My Nikon SuperCoolscan 5000s (both with SF-210 bulk
adaptors) are great, but the Nikon Scan software always left a lot to be
desired; it was slow, crashed often, and with the installation of Tiger
(10.4.2) it worked even more sporadically, scanning a slide or two, and then
freezing.

As a matter of fact, it seems to me now that a lot of the batch scanning
stoppages I experienced were NOT due to the jamming of the SF-210 bulk
feeder, but were Nikon Scan software related instead.

I am currently in the middle of a 3500-slide job, and after arriving at the
perfect combination of settings for Kodachrome slides, I have experienced no
problems or jams yet. I like the ability to save different setups, as well.

I plan to try it soon with my Epson 4870 as well.

Thanks for a great product!

Mike Edwards

Larry Auton - long-time VueScan user:

I've been a user of Vuescan on Linux since July 2001. Today, I
scanned a batch of negatives and was reminded what an outstanding
product you provide. Thanks for years of great service.

Larry Hogrewe, Pond Films:

It works perfectly, I will always be in your debt.
I was about to buy Lasersoft for $500.00.
Again thank you for a wonderful product.

Bill Van Dyck - long-time VueScan user:

Thank you for VueScan. I have owned it and raved about my results
using it for years now. Honestly, I don't remember how long I have
been a VueScan user, but I still get excited every time I download
one of your free updates. I use VueScan to get slides and negatives
(35mm & 120) into my computer and there is not a single product on
the market that works as well. Your continual effort to make
VueScan the best product available has been impressive.

My original version of VueScan was an outstanding product that
turned an old scanner from photographically useless to a very good
image maker. Today's VueScan is a much better product than that
original version and the results it produces on my current
scanner are simply fantastic. I can't wait to see what you do
in the upcoming years.

Again, thank you for VueScan and all of those free updates.
Needless to say that VueScan is my recommendation to any friend or
acquaintance that uses a scanner.

Seiss Wagner - Architect:

I purchased VueScan when I wanted more then what my Umax in the box
scanner software provided. When I purchased VueScan I assumed your
interest in supporting the software would quickly wane and I would be
looking for other developers products.

I have now been using VueScan for nearly 10 years and I am happy to
say I have never looked elsewhere. I use VueScan for production
drawing work, and hand crafted presentation work imported to
PhotoShop for editing.

I have no hesitation in recommending your software to other design
professional and have done so many times. I always preface my
recommendation with the comment that your product support is fastidious.

29 March 2006
Mac360
"If I believed in magic, I'd swear that Ed Hamrick has some sprinkled into VueScan."

December 2005
Connected Photographer
"Wouldn't I be better off using the software from my vendor? The answer, simply, is no. VueScan will almost always give you better quality, color and output options."

October 2005
Photography Monthly
"In PM's opinion, the choice between the two is a no-brainer: the superior user interface, well thought-out features and great value make VueScan the clear winner. Thoroughly recommended."

12 October 2005
Technofile
"VueScan won my admiration in a heartbeat. It became part of my image-scanning routine almost immediately."

6 August 2005
Amateur Photographer
"It delivers high quality scans without any fuss ... it is quite possibly the only scanner driver you will ever need"